Winner of the World Fantasy Award
Rachel has the mind of a teenage girl, but the body and the innocent heart of a young chimp. Rachel knows that she is a real girl – but she must make her way in a world that treats her as nothing but an animal.
The bombs have fallen, and the world as we know it has ended. In her final days, one robotics engineer works to ensure that life will go on. New times are coming — and the future echoes with the rattle of metal claws.
On the space station known as Moon Talk, engineers and poets work together to prototype and manufacture communications satellites. When Angel, a 20-year-old robotics engineer visiting the station is paralyzed in an accident, the poets and engineers work together to find a way for Angel’s consciousness to escape the confines of the station.
Traveling across the Martian polar cap, the second TransPolar Expedition is tracing the shape of the hidden lands beneath the ice and snow. Sita, the expedition’s cartographer, knows that maps are black-and-white portraits of a world that exists in shades of gray . Like cartographers before her, she knows that dragons lurk beyond the edges of every map.
Winner of the 1990 World Fantasy Award
In late-eighteenth century London, Charlie Bryne was known as the Irish Giant — an enormous country lad with a deep connection to the natural magic of the earth. John Hunter, a man of science and a collector of natural oddities, wanted to add the bones of a giant to his collection. This novella examines what happens when the quest for scientific knowledge meets ancient magic.
Lightspeed Magazine, June 2017
It’s not every day that you see an old man in a hat climbing over a fence. While I watched, he reached the top of the fence and swung one leg over to the other side. That’s where he got stuck: one leg over the fence, both hands clinging to the top, about six feet off the ground.
Reactor magazine, May 9, 2012
The way I figure it, you can choose what kind of fairies you want to believe in. Mine are grimy, hardscrabble fairies that hunt in the marsh with stone blades and feed on frogs’ legs. They’d mug Victorian flower fairies and take their stuff.
Escape Pod January 25, 2014
“I don’t want to answer questions,” said the cockroach-shaped robot from Atlantis Mining and Salvage. “I want you to tell me a story,”
Lightspeed Magazine, December 2019
A very short, very angry, and very funny story, ripped from recent US headlines.
By Pat Murphy and Paul Doherty
Clarkesworld Magazine, May 2018
Can a few muskoxen save the world? Maybe not, but they can help.
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